Apr 29, 2011

If you're a blogger who's dreamed of writing for an internationally renowned newspaper, now is your time! The Guardian is currently recruiting media and technology bloggers. The only catch is you need five figure-traffic on your own site to even be considered... More info here.

Apr 28, 2011

So the presentation I told you about below went really well - phew! Everyone at About:Fashionwas super friendly and interested, the atmosphere was calm and easy with natural light, and I managed to engage the audience in a couple of talks on blogging. I love when education gets to happen in small and intimate-ish circles: No overcrowded spaces, lots of working material for everyone to experiment with, and enough time to discuss all questions at due length.

Especially interesting for me was that one of the participants, Thuy, is a professional blogger at Two for Fashion - a fashion blog that belongs to the world's largest mail order company OTTO. Again, I jumped at the chance and asked Thuy a couple of questions on film... only to have my handy video recorder die down on me in the middle of the interview with a full memory card. How embarrassing! Thuy was kind enough to be relaxed about it, though, and just suggested we get together for another attempt when she's in town next time. But of course! And in the meantime I'll go and buy myself a memory card that lasts, like, forever. :)

Apr 27, 2011

I am putting the finishing touches on a presentation I've been preparing for a workshop on blogging I'll hold at About:Fashiontomorrow. (About:Fashion is something like a further education institution for people interested in all things design and style.) Besides important basics and Web 2.0 related topics, I'd like to give hands-on advice to both blogging beginners and pros - with a special focus on international fashion blogs. I am super-excited, please wish me luck!

Apr 25, 2011

It's been a while since I introduced the last culinary blog project on GCB, so I thought it was about time to portray Roos of Good Food in Berlin - a personal, English language restaurant guide to Germany's capital. How useful!

Follow the jump to find out about Roos's first blog which had to be deleted for being too successful, why she brings her camera to work each day, and why, to her, a blogger's gender doesn't really matter...

The Wolverette Zine is currently looking for contributions. Their next themed issue deals with Eating Disorders, and there is no submission deadline. If you'd like to contribute, read more details here. (Via Mädchenblog)

Also, we were forced to start 10 minutes behind schedule, which confused us to the point where we forgot to properly introduce ourselves and our panel on literary review blogs and poetry on the web. What I had imagined to become a very smooth and easy presentation, became "a ride" how someone put it - "an informative one". Our audience was made up of around 40 people, perhaps a third of them is pictured in the photo above. If you're interested in what I spoke about exactly, check this set of links. Some of the material I provided is German, but there's lots of English language content, too. And if I'm not mistaken, Simone will make available her presentation sometime soon, too.

Overall, though, the experience was worthwhile and I was glad to have spoken on something other than cyberfeminism - as much as I'm interested in that topic, I think it's important for women to prove their expertise in areas sounding less intimidating to men. ;) So, would I do it again? I guess, if just to hang out with cool people like @TheGurkenkaiser and my lovely Girls On Web Society ladies. Pleasure to meet you all!

Apr 12, 2011

Tomorrow, finally, the #rp11 starts. And it's going to be crowded! For easier recognizability, I'll be wearing the shirt pictured to the left.

Should you feel like saying hi, please do, I'd love to chat in real life.

Today, thanks to the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, I got a little sneak peak of Cyrus Farivar's talk at the conference. He just recently finished his book The Internet Of Elsewhere. In it, he discusses the the role of the Internet as a catalyst in transforming communications, politics, and economics in Estonia (where access to the Internet has become a human right not long ago!), South Korea, Senegal, and Iran.

If you think these countries sound a little distant, let me surprise you by saying that Korean food tastes absolutely fantastic! ... Just kidding. I was going to hint at the connectivity of things: We can really learn a lot from each other, especially when it comes to typical issues that arise around the accessibility and possibilites of the web: technical availability, equality of distribution, government control and so forth. Cyrus will explain his ideas in more detail at the Friedrichstadtpalast starting at 10 am on Thursday.

Should you be more interested in talks by women but are too lazy to scan the schedule yourself, try the Mädchenmannschaft's collection of female speakers. Part of the conference will be recorded and later made available online. But Simone's and my session on Thursday at 11 am won't be amongst those, I'm afraid. We'll do our best, though, to keep you updated and informed nevertheless, and will make our material available to you as soon as our workshop is finished and we'll find the time.

I also do apologize for keeping you waiting on the next Blogger Portrait - it's been in the making and will surface to your screens as soon as the re-publica craziness will have died down a bit. I just couldn't fit it all into last week. See you tomorrow, I hope!

Apr 11, 2011

Wearing a F**K YOGA pin on public transport costs $175 in Vancouver. What's up with freedom of speech in Canada? (Source)

Diane poses the question whether meditation for women is different from meditation for men. I have been interested in the issue of meditation for a while (mostly because I suck at sitting still), and have, amongst others, come across recent research stating that meditation may substitute pain killers.

Apr 5, 2011

I am putting this trailer up for discussion here, because I liked the introductory remarks about the past discrimination of women in Yoga - but later on I feel it trails off into typical Hollywood blabber. I'm interested in your opinion, though: Is this clip inspiring or yet another form of commercialization of inner peace?

Apr 1, 2011

MTV produced a documentary on Facebook called The Diary of Facebook. It's around 30 minutes long and provides an insight into the most chaotic office space on earth (<- just guessing!). Source.

Carmen wrote an interesting article on models and the history of modeling for austrianfashion.net. More on modeling and how the imitation of modeling poses ruins beautifies our party pictures has Blica.

Amongst others, Mara has been nominated for the Superblogs 2011 Award. Until yesterday, people could suggest their favorite blogs in ten different categories, and now voting is open until 7 April. Unfortunately, this has only come to my attention today, otherwise I would have of course informed you about this earlier.

Erin compiled a few helpful tips for uncluttering your schedule. These are greatly appreciated, as trying to keep your obligations to a minimum can be tough. In another helpful post, she advises you on how to keep your to do list neat and tidy. German GCB readers might remember my Listen post of last February.

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